Dr. Benjamin Mauck, a renowned orthopedic surgeon in Tennessee, was shot to death by his patient, according to police. The 29-year-old suspect had been at the office for several hours to be treated and opened fire when inside the exam room. NBC News’ Blayne Alexander reports.
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This killer is a demon. He isn’t human.
It’s worse, he’s a typical American male under 40.
I’m throwing the mental illness card in. We know who use that all the time.
@Dall Revenge hiphoppin poop clowns 💪🏿
What was he treated for ?
If he could still fire a gun, he must have been cured. It’s not like he would have been seeing a hand doctor for high cholesterol.
@L Rthere’s been people with NO hands that have killed themselves, so that’s not relevant. Some of these doctors behave so condescending to black men and women, I know I have been. I go always looking professional and clean and kind, but I have not been treated same reciprocately
Looks like a hate crime time some Caucasian people stood up against no bushu on white crimes by buku.
Who cares that man was just a doctor he probably attacked that patient and your making him sound innocent
I don’t think so.
That’s a bit far fetched.
@Naudia Neels I bet you voted for trump sir you are a true 🤡
Keep dreaming….you’re defending a murderer….
His friends call him “EAZY PICKENS”
Personal justice as far becoming something that some many people think they’re entitled to. It seems like there’s some examples of people who think they and they alone have earned personal Justice and are above the rest of us if you know what I mean. That is slowly seeping down into American culture. Personal Justice is all in your mind. Justice is best served in the courtroom more times than not. Personal Justice is not something that people are entitled to in this life. However do too examples of those who are above the law they are slowly picking up on the ideas that they can seek it. And they feel it is their right.
Victim blaming a murder victim because of his profession.
@JamesC ,
Your Republican’s endless Extreme Hate for 59% of American’s, every minute of every day, since Noon Eastern time on January 20, 2009, has inevitably led to Angry hate filled comments on the internet ?
What a Shock !
You could not accept the election of an intelligent and honorable black American man, as President, so you voted for the Hate filled intentional liar, who insulted President Obama in the most disrespectful way.
You vote for Donald (the first potential dictator) in American history, twice, and you expect reasonable comments on the internet ?
@JamesC , Any Intentional lie, at any time, to protect your Cult leader, from the crimes he has committed, and you want other Americans to be fair?
@Bill Pride I didn’t say that it did, but that also goes vice versa, we have no idea what the circumstances are, one person said death penalty, right away we make assumptions. Doctors are not saints either
@LadyFor the record, we don’t know if this guy was a long term patient in the first place. It could be that he snapped from whatever pain that he had.
Ridiculously sad😢🙏💟
How did he get in at he hospital with a gun? I thought they had metal detectors
I worked as a surgical rep going to multiple hospitals and never once did I pass through a metal detector
Unfortunately, not a requirement. Looks like that will change soon.
Who cares
Where do you live? I have never been to a hospital that has a metal detector.
@starry eyes
Why have a metal detector at a Hospital, in a state that allows open carry ? It would be a waste of money !
Armed Black man shoots and kills unarmed White surgeon
Tyrone was suffering from a severe case of melaninitis
💔💔🙏😢💔
Yet another tyrannicalTyrone
When w’hite people finally figure out they got reparations comin ima bleach myself like jussie smollett coz I’m not payin. ✌🏾
SMH
The monster killled the man who patches his cousin’s back together after they shooot each other up on an hourly basis
I swear, something went wrong,, bad wrong, in the afroDNA 🌚🧬
It’s the same issue the WRIGHT 🧬 have. But y’all like a HIGHER BODY COUNT.
😮 there you go, turning it into a race war, to small minded to think there are African who doctors too, exposed to the same risk, crazy patients!
Some nerve what a joke. Yeah it’s called 400 years of freaking nasty, criminal behavior from wyte folk
He was murder by an African American
There’s something more to this
Just listening on the news, he was there for a consultation
Why bring a gun to a consultation though
BLM mutant killing a brilliant white doctor! Bias crime!
This unhumane monster was a cold-blooded murderer.
Imagine the news story if a white man shot and killed a black doctor. I can already hear Al Sharpton looking for his next sponsored speech.
Just makes you want to puke.
Horrible so much time in study RIP doctor and there must be accounting
America
That surgeon was going to save a thousand Republican voters’ hands. Now they’re going on disability, and will vote to preserve their benefits. Your lack of gun control failed yourselves yet again.
And the Dems ruined NY, LA, SF, Seattle, Portland, and Seattle, what is your point?
And 99% of you Dems didn’t know RGB stated the way R vs W was passed allowed it to be overturned.
“My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” Ginsburg said. She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights.
“Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it?” Ginsburg said. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physician-centered.”
@Christine Bee I suppose Joe Schmuckatelli aka @lolugotbusted would feel better if the doctor had been stabbed to death.
Amen!
Yes because you know criminals are going to abide by the gun laws.
@ETA 23 as soon as they made murder illegal only criminals were doing it. But no one is stupid enough to bring that point up
I told yall ANIT NOBODY SAFE AROUND TYRONE. Now that DEMON will get the WORST healthcare possible in the pokie.
Diversity and inclusion folks.
Woa how do we know this Dr didn’t have it coming. If you woke up missing a kidney along with your hand surgery you might get mad also.
Really!?! Have had hand surgery. Also, worked in medical clinic where surgeries took place. Between the anesthesiologist, nurses, etc, doubt they would have time to casually remove a KIDNEY! You need to stop watching those horror movies.
@teresa legler I can do better. What if he stole his man parts and sold it to rich Japanese businessmen as some endangered animals. Which they will have a chef prepare so they can eat it in hopes of gaining some kinda powers.
Problem is with black people in Memphis. As a Hispanic, I never got mistreated by anyone that needed me for medical attention
Wait, isn’t this a hate crime?
YESSSS!
Sounds strange. Got to be more to the story.
Must have been one annoying doctor. I once threatened my Dr.
How horrific a crime. My condolences not only to his family and staff. Also, to his patients, especially the pediatric ones.
This violence has hurt so many individuals.
This is freaking messed up.
It’s America in the new Millennium. Deranged freaks everywhere.
Feels like NBC is trying to be Fux…
Dr. Larry Nassar got stabbed up the other day, too. Like, what is this a witch huant on doctors?
Seems like one big psy op
open carry at a hospital is doing wonders. Next step is for the mentally Ill and teachers to have guns in schools and think this won’t be the outcome 🤡
Looks like another honor student trying to turn his life around. Seems very common in some circles.
😮Omg
Another high quality useful person murdered by a dumpster baby. Gotta love modern times.
so lets get this straight black on white crime , black man kills white doctor , yet he not getting help he needs this dont make much sense
Another extreme example of professional jealousy.
I went there when I broke my arm in 8th grade… Praying for the family.
Just awful death penalty for the evil madman who shot him
Just an aside.. I used to work for a health insurance company/HMO and the errors doctors make, you’ll never know about. The incidents are kept to be “reviewed” by a credentialing committee and there is a File Room full of file folders detailing All of the errors and complaints against All Kinds of doctors..and You will never know about them.
So if errors were made,the next thing is for doctors to be killed???
Oh trust me I know….making a complaint against a doctor is a complete joke. Your best result is that they won’t laugh at you behind closed doors.
The health care sector is also rife with an unbelievable amount of racism..and doctors telling patients their symptoms are ‘all in their head’..smh
‘somatoform disorder’ is generally what’s used to explain away your symptoms 😊
🤮
@Ladydid you take legal action?
u know were near the end when lbgt is on the rise and doctors are getting shot
The public will protest for a crack head, however prominent members of society that actually contribute only get condolences from these same people what a clown world.
I would never protest for Don Jr.
Rip…this should never happen. What was the reason???
What is the reason you thought an intelligent and honorable American man, was unacceptable as President of the USA. from Noon Eastern time on January 20, 2009 until Noon Eastern time on January 20, 2017 ?
74 million Republicans became Deranged Lunatics for the rest of their lives. Many of them, even voted for Donald Trump, after seeing his Extreme Rhetoric, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate, for more than 3 years.
The blag community is out of control.
handgun is allowed for patients in hospitals in TN?! These right-to-carry BS regardless if that person is crazy is just out of hand down South
The medical community rarely faces prosecution for incompetence. Drs. usually get away with terrible mistakes etc. Not condoning this, but people are getting fed up with the impersonal lack of accountability within the medical community. The American health care system has a long, long way to go. As do all the pharmeceutical companies that are peddling poisen to millions daily.
KNOB
This was just another sad case of engaging with a poopclown.
Absolutely
Yup… + rampant racism. Dismissing patient symptoms..intentionally misdiagnosing patients. Profits above care. The health system is a joke.
I fell this guy.
RIP to the doctor
White supremacy violence is out of control!
So many people talking about doctors and mistakes that are covered up, implying this doctor made a mistake and the assailant was somehow justified. Gimme a break. That victim mentality cropping up?
Your messiah complex cropping up, when you claim that your Orange Fueher Jesus, did nothing illegal ?
@Rhetoric Something bothering you?
Not saying it was justifyable saying you also don’t know what or how this doctor was possibly behaving, where this man was left in an unstable diagnosis. So!
You weren’t there, so you wouldn’t know…smh
Why was he there for several hours? Could’ve been a hit.
Stalker?
Hate crime. Low life takes the life of a respectable doctor.
Becareful southern Doctors. You may get shot with them laws down there.
Sick, evil man should get a seat in the electric chair. He doesn’t deserve to take up space or oxygen on this earth.
Why?????
Have to start having Metal Detectors in Hospitals just like Courthouses!
There is obviously much more to this story, so no idea why only a few seconds worth of reporting can be afforded?
Less people are watching the news because the news provides us with less and less value these days.
They usually start with the crime and work backwards…Isn’t that how it’s done? More information will mean a longer news clip…..so settle down there muchacho!! lol
sending Thoughts and Prayers in advance to everyone lives in a G.un In.fested country …
its only a matter of time before those bull.ets comin’ atcha .
Always the same basketball folk
It hasn’t sunk in with the general public in the UK….the moment the Russians switched from an offensive mode to a defensive posture, Ukraine lost its opportunity to win this war. The USSR spent decades preparing for an invasion by NATO. They knew they could never gain air superiority over the West, so they developed a strategy to deny the West of air superiority – a small and relatively competent air force, state of the art surface to air defence. And in order to compensate for the loss of tactical air support, they built up an arsenal of artillery assets that dwarfed the collective artillery firepower of NATO by a factor of 10. Mechanised or Combined Arms offensive warfare was never their thing, but defensive warfare was their specialty. As we run out of our stockpiles of artillery shells in NATO, and we have to increasing resort to rockets, missiles and now it seems fighter jets to address the deficiency in artillery – the Russians are still enjoying a 4:1 advantage in artillery. The advantage has swung to the Russian side and it’s about time we recognise this. Since the Russians have switched to defence, the Ukrainian “counter offensive” has led to nowhere. Without a massive air campaign (not a job for a merr handful of F-16s), the Ukrainian army will find it very difficult to make any headway against the Russian defences. The Russians went into this war underestimating their own troop requirements, they sent in 180,000 men in offensive operations. Now they have roughly 400,000 men dug in on the defensive. And when the frontline isn’t advancing rapidly, artillery becomes far more effective, as do trenches, anti-tank installations, anti-personnel mines. NEVER MIND the media showing us a hand-full of Ukrainians killing a handful of Russians daily, this war is rapidly becoming unwinnable for the Ukrainians.
Yet the Russians still continue to lose ground. Doesn’t seem to be working out for them either way.
These scum are a danger to society. Avoid them if you can. Black people are moving away from them, if they can afford to. Whatever they are, they are not human. They take and destroy where ever they go.
yeah and good luck getting that message out — heck before long it’ll be flagged…
Only in America, the land of stupid people with guns…
Most unsurprising assailant.
Schools Malls Churches Hospitals Work Places Homes only in America everybody’s unsurprised…. Sighs!
Scrubbies Gone Wild
How many good quality people have this worthless scourge murrdered
Cotton&Tobacco
the worst thing that ever happened to America
Two things i use daily but would be willing to live without
My deepest condolences to the doctor & his loved ones 💔🙏💔
This is not the first case this year of a patient shooting his doctor. Why are guns allowed in hospitals or doctor offices? Must we have metal detectors there, too?
they’re not, but this perp was black which gives him that ‘special’ status…
Of course nbc refuses to call this a HATE CRIME again
There needs to be an FBI investigation into the entire Healthcare Industry … Let me guess Doctor didn’t take his Black patient seriously because he’s Black or Doctor was purposely messing up this man’s Insurance Claim because he Black … It’s been known to happen … Just this time he just picked the wrong Black Person to do it too…. In prison he’ll get all the medical care he need they fix’em right on up , Because you can’t collect for a dead prisoners , Right?…
That black guy is good for nothing, meanwhile a doctor gets killed. Stop with your stupid theoretical story.
Everyone STOP!! You need to understand these dr’s aren’t writing pain Rx anymore because the dea has put a stop to it!! I am sorry for the dr but you need to know all of the facts before jumping to conclusions!! Look it up, there’s been several dr’s that have been assaulted because they are saying no to pain meds for their patients!! Pharmacy’s are also getting quotes of how many pain meds they can sell!! Ask someone in the medical field what’s going on with pain meds!!! This is also why so many had turned to fentanyl!!!!!
Nothing person who contributes nothing to society kills a dedicated doctor
Never wld have seen it coming from the looks of the killer. If it was in California he will be let out quick. That new law they passed is letting so many of these killers walk free. RIP to Doctor. So sorry and condolences to his family, staff and communities.
I read this comment before watching the video and thought to myself, wonder what the killer looks like….. I see what you what did there….
Just like that guy in Ohio that killed his 3 sons execution style in front of their mom…you imagine him correctly too?
@maxedoutco He definitely looked like he was the narcissistic, I better get what I want or else type! That son of a B is a Demon. This one had to have been triggered by something told to him or about him.
another black on white killing
which makes it a hate crime…
Just call it what it is….Racist…
it was a hate crime…
I wouldn’t trust anyone that would attack someone who was meant to help them the charges should be bumped up to premeditated he was armed and waited till he was seen
He brought a gun, making this premeditated. Geez, if you have a grievance, file a malpractice lawsuit, don’t bring a gun. So few details given, who can pass judgement on the doctor? Guns are for protecting your life, not taking them because you don’t like the treatment plan.
Now white doctors will be carefully screening black patients…..what a POS!! imho….and prolly everyone else’s opinion….
The doctor, likely, didn’t want to refill his pain medication.
and to add insult to this horrendous crime, he’ll be given — at best — life compliments of taxpayers for god knows how many years…
But why why
Why did the defendant shoot the dr tell us that please
Very sad that this happened but it could have been prevented.😢 People should learn this
Why?
The suspect not only killed a medical professional. He killed hope and cure for many, killed a husband, father, son and a person of many roles in society. Even being a medical professional is dangerous today. Do medical staff need flak jackets? Right to carry is a right though. (a separate topic altogether)
Everyone get a gun crazy or not… this shall continue not surprising. Pray for his family😢.
Nothing makes sense anymore.😢
The US truly is “…for the land of the free, and the home of the dead.”
Gotta get rid of the guns!
WELL this GUY did not think DOC was all that great. …..WAS he a medical critic* or a patient mistreated. we shall never know. EVERYTIME* someone is labeled a Saint* there is someone who thinks they are the very DEVIL*
And the shooter will claim mental illness 😐